multimedia artist & author
From Remote Control :
"You think you can escape commodification --- You can't.
"Why are we shown one picture and not another?"
"Why this sound bite and not that one?"
"Man" can be nature, but "Manhood" is culture.
...Fashion is predicted on acceleration and distraction.
"...Brechtian fluency"
"And to those who understand how pictures and words shape consensus, we are unmoving targets waiting to be turned on and off by the relentless seductions of remote control.
"To some it's (postmodernism) an excuse to pile together oodles of wild and crazy decor, to others it's another example of the weakness of standards and values, to others a transgressive resistance to the sureness of catagories, to others a handy way to describe a particular house, dress, car, artist, dessert, or pet and to others, it's simply already over"
"Times have changed and the world comes to us in different ways. Narrative has leaped from the page to the screen, music demands to be seen as ewll as heard, computers have jumbled our relationship to information, surveillance, and money, and television has merely changed everything".
Also, many reflections on Quality , Taste, Meaning, History, the power of images , money, and critiques on American culture, movies, television and its corporate networks, hollywood, fashion, utopia, ....
Television vs. Cinema narrative.
From Gary Indiana "The War at Home"
"You don't have to read Lacan to appreciate this work, but Lacan is helpful if you want to take the work in without miring yourself in fronted relation to what it's saying at the moment you are looking at it."
GRIDS is part of
